Lethal Force

* Airspace restriction covers London, southeast England * Fighter jets, helicopters will intercept rogue craft * Government says no specific threat By Michael Holden LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Britain's air force will be on standby to shoot down any rogue aircraft over London from Saturday under tight new restrictions being enforced two weeks ahead of the Olympic Games. Security surrounding the Olympics has made the headlines this week...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Rights groups urged Egypt's army-backed government on Tuesday to investigate mass killings of protesters by security forces during the dispersal of Muslim Brotherhood sit-ins in August after Islamist president Mohamed Mursi was deposed. Interim authorities have pressed the crackdown on dissent since then, jailing thousands of Mursi supporters and outlawing the Islamist movement that propelled him to power last year in Egypt's first freely...

Prompted by the controversial shootings three years ago at Idaho's Ruby Ridge, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno signed an order Tuesday tightening the rules on the use of deadly force by agents at nine federal law-enforcement agencies, officials said. Under current guidelines, agents may use deadly force to protect their lives or the life of another person who they believe to be in imminent danger. The new rule explicitly directs agents to use nonlethal means whenever...

By Tim Gaynor PHOENIX, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, under fire for being too quick to use lethal force, will train officers to defuse threats following the deaths of at least 19 people since 2010 in incidents on the northern and southern borders. The changes announced on Wednesday came in response to a letter signed by 16 members of Congress in May 2012, calling for a review of use-of-force incidents and...

Weary-eyed, Laura and Willie Dent approached their 15-year-old grandson's coffin, their grief worn raw by the senseless chain of events that led to his death. The grandfather let out a heavy sigh. "All my dreams," he said, "have been swept away." Joshua Dent was buried Tuesday. His best friend Antonio Washington, 17, was buried Wednesday. Like many of Chicago's homicide victims, both were killed over a meaningless insult. Experts say their deaths show the extent to...

When we learned Gov. Pat Quinn was about to sign a bill requiring law enforcement train in nonlethal ways to subdue dogs, Dawn Trice and I figured it for a good opportunity to tackle an underreported issue: The frequency with which police officers shoot these animals. We always report on police officers shooting people brandishing guns against cops. We even report on nonlethal methods the cops use to subdue people, such as taser and pepper spray discharges. But very seldom is it...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy on Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his administration's use of drones to kill terrorists abroad, and in a nod to concerns, outlined plans to limit the use of such strikes. As described in a White House statement, the key elements of the president's policy for the use of force in counterterrorism operations outside the United States and outside a war zone are as follows: * The...

WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - In a wide-ranging speech on foreign policy on Thursday, President Barack Obama defended his administration's use of drones to kill terrorists abroad, and in a nod to concerns, outlined plans to limit the use of such strikes. As described in a White House statement, the key elements of the president's policy for the use of force in counterterrorism operations outside the United States and outside a war zone are as follows: * The...

MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) - The Mexican government on Sunday condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican citizen over the U.S. border by a U.S. agent. The victim was hit by a single bullet on Saturday, close to the Tomates-Veterans border crossing in Matamoros, over the river from Brownsville, Texas, Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry said in a news release. The shot was fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the ministry said in the release. ...

It's become accepted wisdom that Washington has become pathologically polarized and partisan, with every new debate inevitably breaking down along party lines. That's why it was so remarkable last week when Rand Paul's old-fashioned talking filibuster scrambled the even more old-fashioned right-vs.-left way of looking at the world. The Paul-provoked debate on the confirmation of John Brennan to head the CIA in turn provoked a wider and critical debate about the use of drones -- a debate that needs to...

When we learned Gov. Pat Quinn was about to sign a bill requiring law enforcement train in nonlethal ways to subdue dogs, Dawn Trice and I figured it for a good opportunity to tackle an underreported issue: The frequency with which police officers shoot these animals. We always report on police officers shooting people brandishing guns against cops. We even report on nonlethal methods the cops use to subdue people, such as taser and pepper spray discharges. But very seldom is it...

* Airspace restriction covers London, southeast England * Fighter jets, helicopters will intercept rogue craft * Government says no specific threat By Michael Holden LONDON, July 13 (Reuters) - Britain's air force will be on standby to shoot down any rogue aircraft over London from Saturday under tight new restrictions being enforced two weeks ahead of the Olympic Games. Security surrounding the Olympics has made the headlines this week...

The time is 1924 in a fictional southern American town called Delano. Will Henry Lee, a former farmer, has just been appointed police chief, despite opposition from Sheriff Skeeter Willis and Foxy Funderburke, a WWI vet who feels cheated that he didn`t get the job. A series of young boys are about to be murdered, murders that will change the lives of anyone who tries to solve the cases. Is the town home for a mass murderer? During a span of almost 40 years, several police chiefs will try to...

MEXICO CITY, July 8 (Reuters) - The Mexican government on Sunday condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican citizen over the U.S. border by a U.S. agent. The victim was hit by a single bullet on Saturday, close to the Tomates-Veterans border crossing in Matamoros, over the river from Brownsville, Texas, Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry said in a news release. The shot was fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the ministry said in the release. ...